Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

For those who like that sort of thing, " said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

Like chaos in a glass cage.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.